http://connorbevans.com Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:08:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, my readers, I present to you an incredible leak, from an anonymous employee at some sort of smartphone development firm. He wasn't able to provide me with an image of the phone, but this logo (which is definitely not photoshopped) provides me with sufficient evidence that the president will ... http://connorbevans.com/2009/02/barackberry/ In the digital age traditional 35mm film has almost completely died out, and we've lost an incredible format. This summer I took a two week program on black and white film photography. While I already knew all about camera stuff and how incredible photography was, I had never experimented with ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/09/film-and-the-black-and-white-medium/ Thanks to Nokia, I was able to get my hands on their latest Nokia N95 8GB smartphone. Let's get down to this thing they call, um, what is it again? Oh yeah, a review. Media and Look Well, I'm sure you've seen a few shots of the phone before, but it comes ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/06/nokia-n95-review/ So, I decided it was time to join the pack (albeit a bit late) and do my own iWant list. Here we go: Camcorder. Not sure what type, thinking of a Canon XL1 maybe, has to have some form of higher quality mic input though. MIDI Keyboard. Well, necessarily MIDI, but some sort of ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/06/iwant/ Nope, not that I remember at least. Why did this guy take my post? I don't know. He doesn't have a contact page, so I looked him up, and I'll be contacting him. Most likely by email. His info:   Ine Ikegami (webmaster@rayzedblog.com)     ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/05/is-my-name-jon-fortt/ I found this one just a few nights ago, and I loved it instantly. It's www.game-ism.com, and it's awesome. It's an example of what a blogger should really attempt to be. His posts are the right length, well thought out, and give you the sense that he's really put time ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/05/new-favourite-blog/ Now, people have advised to get the Xbox 360, at least for someone who has one. But why? Because of the downloadable content. I am currently playing the game on my PS3. Why? Because that way I could get it as soon as possible. The reason I don't really care ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/05/gta-iv-rocks-even-on-ps3/ Just a quick note to say I hate Rogers Internet. Why? They're throttling bandwidth to bittorrent. I conducted a few tests to see how well they were doing it too:  Juno - 3192 seeders, 390 leechers - Averaging less than 20kbps down - Averaging around 20 kbps up Scrubs Season 1 - ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/05/damn-you-rogers/ Okay, instead of writing a post about why I love Earth Day, I'll give a post on why I hate it. Earth Day is a superficial method of making people think that they're making a difference, while still doing relatively little. Oh, and yes, it's just for a day. Not ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/04/earth-day/ Over the past year few months I've improved as a photographer immensely. Though not only in my actual image capturing, in my editing abilities as well. Aperture and Photoshop help, but many of the adjustments I make could be done in GIMP, just not as easily or as quickly. Example  of a shot I ... http://connorbevans.com/2008/04/my-improvement-as-a-photographer/